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OPINION

Howell area home buyers, beware!

At the 2014 Builders Show I asked every vendor that advertised the finishing of basements if they did the work without a building permit. Every one of them basically said absolutely not. Their work was always done to code with the proper permits.

Yet, in March 2014, four of five contractors bidding on my basement were not going to get a building permit.

I can tell you where there are 20 illegally finished basements in the city of Howell.